You don't need to buy it, it is already sold and in writing . Your acceptance of it's reality is of no consequence.

I think it more likely that society assumes that if you feed a kid a pill, you've "fixed" him, and parents are delegating their parenting
responsibilities to medicines instead of actually raising their children.

Things like ADD?ADHD aren't new. Research shows that they're actually hereditary meaning they've always been there. So what's changed is our approach
to raising children, not the children we raise or the issues they have.

If kids with things like ADD/ADHD weren't popping off and acting out in dramatically violent fashion in the past, it must be because we were raising
them differently. So what has changed about our child-rearing practices in society?

Parents took time to teach their children important life lessons
Nowadays , day care ,teachers , games , etc. And pills if they seem not to be learning those lessons.
Not enough parental guided upbringing . Parents dont want to take that precious time up with needless stuff
Someone else can do it.

Shooter had divorced parents who had an adversarial relationship on parenting, had been in mental illness treatment several times, was addicted to
video games, sounds like his mother who had custody had no control, etc.

Shooter had divorced parents who had an adversarial relationship on parenting, had been in mental illness treatment several times, was addicted to
video games, sounds like his mother who had custody had no control, etc.

Recipe for disaster. It's all there.

Custody? Isn't (wasn't) he 24 years old? That's what I read yesterday, so maybe it was incorrect and it's been corrected by now (since news outlets
DONT CONFIRM FACTS ANYMORE), but if he's 24 and a parent has to have custody of him, this is DEF not someone who should have been able to buy a gun.

This isn’t the first time a mentally ill person has legally bought guns and used them to kill others. THIS has to stop.

Holy cow, the article you linked to paints a SAD situation. I don't know if it was the intent of the writer of the article, but it makes Katz's
mother sound pretty batship crazy. If the stuff in that article is accurate, it's a wonder the kid didn't lose it years ago. And why didn't the
father sue for primary custody, if he knew the situation over there was so bad?

I wonder what the requirements are for reporting mental health issues in adolescents history, when they are adults applying for a gun? I know that
adults often don't report that stuff on gun license applications because they don't want to be denied- but I wonder if you have to report incidents or
institutionalizations from childhood?

a reply to: KansasGirl
We can't get them all. The only way to do so is to fundamentally change our entire way of life and acceptance of levels of privacy and anonymity that
are basically non existent. I say just chalk it up to humans will be humans and accept being alive has the very real danger of being killed in a
completely random accident or murder in some manner to a very almost irrelevant chance.

I hope whoever does end up winning the Madden tournament donates a bit of their winnings to the families affected and maybe a mental health clinic in
their community.

Divorce filings from the parents of 24-year-old David Katz of Baltimore say that as a teenager he was twice hospitalized in psychiatric facilities
and that he was prescribed anti-psychotic and antidepressant medications.

Divorce filings from the parents of 24-year-old David Katz of Baltimore say that as a teenager he was twice hospitalized in psychiatric facilities
and that he was prescribed anti-psychotic and antidepressant medications.

Have you ever paid attention to the commercials for antidepressants? In every single one of them, the listed side effects prominently include
"suicidal thoughts or actions."

Ummm, isn't the antidepressant supposed to be preventing that stuff, not causing it

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